Another clue for Boyajian's Star: Still not aliens, but maybe a companion

Remember Boyajian's Star (what )? This star undergoes episodes of rapid and dramatic drops in brightness that are, even to this day, still unexplained. What made it most famous was the idea that it could be getting blocked by pieces of an alien megastructure being assembled around it.

Oh yeah, that star. The dips we see in the star's brightness are weird, because they appear to be semi-random (if they do happen at regular intervals they're not super strict about it...